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Description
With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of the four men whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century It is... read more
Cast of Characters/Important People
- Montagu Norman: Add a description of this character.
- Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht
- John Maynard Keynes
- Aime Hilaire Emile Moreau
- Banque d'Algerie
- George L. Harrison
- Winston Churchill
- Thomas Lamont
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Benjamin Strong
- Adolf Hitler
- Herbert Hoover
- Henry Davison
- Rudolph Von Havenstein
- Dr. Adolph Miller
- Gustav Stresemann
- Charles Gates Dawes
- Eugene Meyer
- Hans Luther
- Parker Gilbert
- David Lloyd George
- Raymond Poincare
- Stanley Baldwin
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“These bubbles and crises seem to be deep-rooted in human nature and inherent to the capitalist system”
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Authors & Contributors
- Liaquat Ahamed (Author)
Awards
- Amazon.com's Best Books (November 2009: Editors' Picks, #43)
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